Superstition Pays
Create a way to get the universe to deliver what you want and make a million.
I will sometimes have a video thrust in front of me that has some hopeful charlatan trying to sell the secret of a good life. Almost everyone wants to know how to live a happy, fulfilled life, and if someone can come up with a formula that guarantees such a thing, thousands of people will pay for it. The Secret is a good example of such a money-making jamboree. Of course, it doesn't work, but decades after it was first introduced, people still cling to it and attend even more expensive courses to refine their skills in asking the universe to break all its laws so they can have a luxury Mercedes. It's childish, but the promise of being able to control the universe is too compelling to ignore. Spinoza has something to say about this:
... we see that it is particularly those who greedily covet fortune's favours who are the readiest victims of superstition of every kind,
The Secret, praying for stuff, or whatever elaborate rituals a person uses to get what they want, is nothing more than an appeal to superstition. This is quite understandable, since we are programmed survival machines and don't like to consider the nature of reality; therefore, we make things up. By the way, it might be worth taking a brief look at reality: